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Try Sanderling and Dresden Staatskapelle, Walter and Columbia SO, and Szell with Cleveland for some added flavor. I also have an interesting set with Mackerras (spelling?) and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. I am unfamiliar with Haitink's Brahms - looking forward to picking this up.

He is a favourite organ composer of mine. I seem to favour French organ music to eg. German.

I have THIS compilation album of bits of Widor's solo organ symphonies & I like it quite a bit. I like that orchestral feel these have, as you mention. Also the grand and romantic - maybe also liturgical - element in his music.

I also have THIS disc on ASV label, which has his organ symphonies 1 & 2 complete.

One of the problems with Widor is that he was an obsessive reviser and - much like Bruckner - often left several versions of a symphony without saying which one was "the one" that organists should play. Eg. on that Naxos disc, it has his Sym.#5 - the one with the famous Toccata ending - in complete form. It's in three movements on that disc, but I've seen it on another (Hyperion) disc in five movements (that same work, the Sym.#5). So it can be confusing.

However, as regards to that Toccata, it is inevitably played in organ recitals, sometimes as the final work on the bill, or as an encore. & I never tire of hearing it, esp. live. It really sounds spectacular in that resonating acoustic of a church interior...

I've read a bit about this Liszt this year since his bicentennial got some space in the music magazines I read, and what I read has led me to hold my tongue a little more about him than I have in the past. There is more to Liszt than meets the ear (at least my ear so far), so if and when I get the chance I will sample some more of his music and your offerings give me some places to go. Thanks